Trump’s Emergency Declaration Will Be Challenged in Court. Will He Lose?
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border to unlock the border wall funding that Congress has refused to provide is already facing a court challenge. But even though Trump has already undermined his justification for declaring an emergency, it’s far…
“I Didn’t Need to Do This”: Trump Uses Emergency Declaration Speech to Make Case Against Himself
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump used the speech announcing his decision to invoke emergency powers to fund border wall construction to strengthen the legal arguments against that decision. “I didn’t need to do this,” Trump said Friday about the emergency declaration, “but I’d rather do…
A Private Prison CEO Is “Hopeful” About the Budget Deal’s Boost for ICE Detention
A guard at the Adelanto Detention Facility, an ICE detention center run by the GEO GroupJohn Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As a congressional deal on border security funding came closer to passing yesterday, the CEO of the country’s largest private prison company told shareholders that he expects the…
Democrats Are Taking a Stand on Immigration, and This Time It’s Not About the Wall
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Virginia, in October.Steve Helber/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The government is days away from another shutdown, but this time the impasse isn’t over a wall. Instead, Republicans and Democrats are split over a provision that’s both more obscure…
Trump’s Chief of Staff Says Another Government Shutdown Might Be Unavoidable
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late January, Congress put an end to the longest government shutdown in history with a three-week spending bill and a promise to return to bipartisan talks for a long-term deal. But on Sunday, Trump officials and Republican leaders were uncertain that another shutdown could…
Grilled on Family Separations, Whitaker Responds, “I Appreciate Your Passion”
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday is likely to be remembered for his defiant and repeated refusal to discuss any communications he may have had with the president regarding the Russia probe. But tucked within Whitaker’s daylong…